DHAKA: The assassination attempt, which left student leader Osman Hadi seriously injured, and his subsequent death, has resulted in a massive anti-India demonstration throughout Bangladesh. After the attack, Hadi had been flown to Singapore to receive medical care, but he died in a hospital there.
As per a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore, medical doctors tried all possible means to revive Osman Hadi but he gave up the fight at last.
Due to the extreme nature of his injuries resulting from the shooting on the 15th of December, Hadi, the leading figure of the 2024 student movements in Bangladesh, was taken to Singapore for treatment. The shooting occurred as Hadi was leaving a mosque in Dhaka, exponentially masked gunman fired at him, hitting him in the ear.
The attack on Hadi came after the unannounced first Bangladesh election after a student-led movement, in which Hadi was an active participant, had resulted in the overthrow of Sheikh Hasina’s authoritarian government. Hadi was the senior leader of the student group Inqilab Mancha and a fiercely anti-India. It is said that India may have been behind the attack because he was her outspoken opponent.
Hadi’s Demise Urged Public Outrage
After Hadi’s assassination, hundreds of furious protesters marched the roads of Dhaka and other cities making their anger over the killing known and blaming India for the situation. Several Indian-related institutions and media houses faced a wave of attacks from the country’s agitators.
Youngsters agitating in the Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar region, marched to the Prothom Alo office, the most influential Bengali-language daily, and set it on fire, thus damaging the building severely. The agitators accused the publication of being an Indian intermediary.
The video retrieved from Kaler Kantha paper represents another lot of agitators who destroyed The Daily Star office with fire. The scene is a few hundred yards from where The Daily Star staff works. The agitators shouted that both print media and electronic media were the means through which India exercised political influence in Bangladesh.
Angry crowds set fire to the headquarters of Bangladesh’s leading English-language newspaper, The Daily Star, in Dhaka tonight, amid heightened political tensions following the killing of Bangladeshi youth leader Osman Hadi.
The building’s ground floor was set ablaze, forcing… pic.twitter.com/iRidAvcJHt
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